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My main gripe with this book is that it fails to strike the right balance between summarizing extraneous detail and excising necessary detail. But some commentators who I take reasonably seriously took this seriously, and for a while I was trying to keep up with altright-explainers, so I figured I’d give this late entry a try. But within a few short years, the site's ideology spun on its axis; it became the birthplace and breeding ground of the alt-right.
Beran benefits from his personal experience on 4chan and Tumblr - he views himself as one of the troubled Extremely Online men who could've become an alt-right nihilist. It seems to make overly broad generalizations in places where the topic doesn’t interest the author, and on the flip side it goes into extreme detail when something does. As a terribly useful aside, please read George Packer’s recent essay for The Atlantic titled “How to Destroy a Government” ( https://www. Senior correspondent Peter Rubin will review Yoko Ogawa's The Memory Police, out in translation August 13.Indulgence and toil, personal and private, self-actualization and company loyalty were all to become one. And if you are isolated, you can participate in the ersatz interaction of virtual communities, such as message boards and social media.
His chapter on Tumblr is far more sympathetic than Nagle's, yet he's still critical of its popularized version of Judith Butler's feminism and queer theory and suggests that something dangerous came from the 4chan crowd discovering that line of thinking. First, so the blame doesn’t all go to the Fisher school, Beran relies way more on Hannah Arendt for his analysis of the right than makes sense. Give it a gander and decide for yourselves, educated bibliophiles, then fall back into your palantir screens and veg out at the futility of it all. By not weaving this into the history of 4chan sooner, the author fails to understand or outline for his read the ways in which 4chan /already was/ right leaning long before what he claims to be a new rightward shift in /r9k/ users. It’s probably also valuable if you’re trying to understand the mentality of the people who have been radicalized towards the alt right and how and why that movement felt natural or appealing in the sorts of online cultures where it began to flourish.I’d like to say that this book encapsulates the Fisher school’s weaknesses and its strengths, but that’s only maybe a quarter true. Furthermore, the hatred the author describes as emerging out of /r9k/ is part of an ongoing pattern. So when the intricately duplicative art of mass media nests in the soul like a cuckoo, replacing real experience with simulation, it is not so much a flaw as a feature. Beran's account of how counter-culture is ultimately ground up and subsumed by capitalism, only to be repacked and sold back to you as self liberation/definition is surprisingly compelling.
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